Is my 40litre tank overcrowded

[Fish4dawin]

i have some algae wafers but guppies are big bullies and never let my snail have any food

Your snail has the algae as food. Try putting a small piece of cucumber in. The snail would like that.

 

[Colin_T]

What are the tank dimensions (length x width x height)?
How often do you feed the fish?
What do you feed the fish?
How often do you do water changes and how much do you change?
Do you gravel clean the substrate when you do a water change?
Are there any live plants in the tank?

These things all contribute to how many fish you can keep in a tank.

 

[Essjay]

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This is the “ catfish “ or what he looks like is he the corydoras type that need a school?

That's an otocinclus, a type of small plec. Like cories, they are soft water shoaling fish. They are also algae eaters and some never learn to eat other food. So they need a tank which can grow enough of the right kind of algae to feed a shoal, and 40 litres isn't big enough.

 

[Sgooosh]

Your snail has the algae as food. Try putting a small piece of cucumber in. The snail would like that.

mystery snail, dosent eat algae. when i got him i thought he did but no, i feed him blnched bok choy and sometimes spinach but he likes bok choy better, the guppies still eat the bok choy>>>>

 

[Fish4dawin]

I was talking about nerite snails

 

[Sgooosh]

I was talking about nerite snails

Oh theres lots of algae in my tank so i dont really have to feed them

 

[She]

What are the tank dimensions (length x width x height)?
How often do you feed the fish?
What do you feed the fish?
How often do you do water changes and how much do you change?
Do you gravel clean the substrate when you do a water change?
Are there any live plants in the tank?

These things all contribute to how many fish you can keep in a tank.

53x

What are the tank dimensions (length x width x height)?
How often do you feed the fish?
What do you feed the fish?
How often do you do water changes and how much do you change?
Do you gravel clean the substrate when you do a water change?
Are there any live plants in the tank?

These things all contribute to how many fish you can keep in a tank.

53x41x31 it’s the love fish 40litre
I feed them every evening and feed them flakes or bloodworm and algae wafers
I do 25% water change every two to three weeks and change the filter monthly, I have aquarium compost underneath a black sand material with 9 plants that are doing really well (sorry proud moment) and yes I have a gravel cleaner

 

[She]

That's an otocinclus, a type of small plec. Like cories, they are soft water shoaling fish. They are also algae eaters and some never learn to eat other food. So they need a tank which can grow enough of the right kind of algae to feed a shoal, and 40 litres isn't big enough.

Thank you, I’m really quite upset about this this little guy when I brought him from the fish shop I asked if he needed to be in a school and was told he didn’t, so I’m hoping to set something up for the softer water fish can’t have them I’m condition they don’t like !

 

[EllRog]

Can we stop recommending people to keep their bettas with tank mates? Betta's are not community fish and are aggressive. Putting them into a community setting is just cruelty to all of the fish

 

[Fish4dawin]

Can we stop recommending people to keep their bettas with tank mates? Betta's are not community fish and are aggressive. Putting them into a community setting is just cruelty to all of the fish

That is of course your opinion and everyone respects that. I was just sharing that it could work. Not saying it will not saying it won't.

 

[EllRog]

That is of course your opinion and everyone respects that. I was just sharing that it could work. Not saying it will not saying it won't.

It's not my opinion that bettas are aggressive, solitary fish. They are

 

[Fish4dawin]

Are you speaking from personal experience? Or from the heart? I've kept a betta in a community tank with corys and rummynoses and have had zero issues. I'm not trying, and won't respond to, to make a disagreement but that's just my experience. You can take it with a grain of salt if you want to. Btw the betta is a female not a male.

 

[She]

Again I don’t want to start a disagreement because both are right , my first ever beta a crowntail beta , I kepted in a small community tank (I actually brought him from a pet shop already in a community tank) so he was fine and really happy but when I had the elephant ear beta he was always grumpy compared to the crow tail so I always kepted him alone they are known to fight but it depends on there personalities

 

[EllRog]

Having bettas in these set ups are a ticking time bomb. You can't tell me that they're "happy". They either stress themselves into illness or snap and decimate everything else in the tank. It's cruel. Just because your betta didn't immediately kill the rest of your fish doesn't mean it's happy and the set up is a success. Every domestic betta has an aggressive personality, most wild's too, it's just some are much more aggressive than others.
Pet shops will throw a betta into a tiny tank with 100 platties and fool everyone into thinking they can do that with their betta. Most of the time, you'll see that betta washed out, visibly stressed, fins nipped and attempting to hide above the filtration outlet.

 

[ClownLurch]

53x

53x41x31 it’s the love fish 40litre
I feed them every evening and feed them flakes or bloodworm and algae wafers
I do 25% water change every two to three weeks and change the filter monthly, I have aquarium compost underneath a black sand material with 9 plants that are doing really well (sorry proud moment) and yes I have a gravel cleaner

In amongst the everlasting ”betta tank mates battles” I’m surprised no ones picked up on two things in this post:

1/ “25% water change every two or three weeks”
2/ “I change the filter monthly”.

25% every two or three weeks is way too low. 25% every week would be considered low by some on here. 50% every week is a figure often advised.
Filters shouldn’t be changed monthly. It’ll lose the beneficial bacteria build up. Once the tanks up n running it’s generally recommended to rinse them out in used tank water every few weeks.